John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred

Download or read book John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred written by Jeffery W. Howe and published by McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred" accompanies an exhibition of the same name that will open at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College in September 2015. This exhibition examines for the first time from an interdisciplinary perspective La Farge s lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred. Most outstandingly shown in his stained glass and ecclesiastical paintings, the exhibition demonstrates how this quest is manifest equally in the artist s representations of nature and still life and in his stunningly imaginative book illustrations. The exhibition will also explore how his trip to Japan and the South Seas in 1886 reinforced the multicultural range of La Farge s spiritual inquiry. Negotiating the boundaries between realism and symbolism, La Farge is always innovative and intriguing. Scholars and curators Jeffery Howe, David Cave, Cecelia Levin, James O Toole, David Quigley, Virginia Raguin, and Roberto Rosause the stained glass and paintings in the exhibition to inform their original research on this seminal American artist. "